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The Bays Family Irish Band, with Erynn Marshall and Carl Jones
Randal Bays and Family Irish Traditional Music
Website: www.randalbays.com
This is what it is all about... Irish music at its highest and deepest level. - LiveIreland.com
Randal Bays is well known in the worldwide Irish music community as a fiddler and guitarist, with a string of fne recordings to his credit. He's performed with many of the great Irish musicians of our time and has toured for many years in North America, Ireland and Europe. Randal is also highly regarded as a teacher of Irish traditional music. He co-founded and served for ten years as Artistic Director of the Friday Harbor Irish Music Week in Washington's San Juan Islands. Hes currently Program Director of the Cascadia Irish Music Week, now in its fourth year and located at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Performing with Randal are his wife, Susan Waters, on fiddle and vocals, and his sons Willie and Owen Bays on Irish flute and concertina. They are following in the tradition of family music making in rural Ireland, going back hundreds of years and continuing to the present day. Family groups like theirs are often found making music for dances, parties, wakes, and gatherings of all kinds, in addition to appearing at concerts and music festivals.
The Bays Family recently released a CD called A Rake of Tunes, featuring the traditional instrumental music that forms the heart of their repertoire. This wonderful review of A Rake of Tunes captures the spirit of their music making.
Review: A Rake of Tunes By Randal Bays and Family
Margeson on the Music October 2014 http://my.liveireland.com/profles/blogs/margeson-on-the-music-october-2014
The wonderful fiddle player, Randal Bays, has a new album. A Rake of Tunes. It is a family project with Randal joined by his family Susan, Owen, and Willie. This is Irish music at its most traditional and best. Brace yourself. There are 23 cuts. You hear a lot about different styles of playing Irish music in the old days. East Galway for fiddles. Roscommon for futes. Sliabh luachra. Tons of them. Most of them have disappeared or been greatly modified due to technology and a wider distribution of the music. It is quite arguable that there never was an east Galway style of fiddling or sliabh luachra style of playing a tune. Rather it would be more accurate to say that these styles of music were not geographical but familial. There were definitive styles in which these musical families of Ireland played their music, and from that amalgam came a certain shared approach that would be given a name, such as sliabh luachra. The roots are in those magical families, and not the geography, per se. Which is why it is so lovely to hear this album from Randal and his family. This is not some international, high-powered group of young musicians bursting forth onto the festival and tour scene. No, this is Irish music the way it was born. Its a wonderfully gifted family sitting together playing wonderful music. We dont know how many cds A Rake of Tunes is going to sell, but that doesnt seem to be the point. The point is the musicand on a deeper level, the point is the Bays family. This is what it is all about. Or supposed to be. Go to randalbays.com and get a copy of this. This is Irish music at its highest and deepest level.
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2020 22nd Ave SE
Olympia, WA 98501
United States
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